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Nothing Is Impossible: Further Problems of Dr. Sam Hawthorne (2014)

by Edward D. Hoch

Series: Dr. Sam Hawthorne (Short Story Collection)

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Dr. Sam Hawthorne, a New England country doctor in the first half of the twentieth century, was constantly faced by murders in locked rooms and impossible disappearances. Nothing Is Impossible contains fifteen of Dr. Sam¿s most extraordinary cases solved between 1932 and 1936, including ● A circus acrobat who vanishes from a trapeze ● An invisible weapon ● Murder in a cabin surrounded by unmarked snow ● Murder in a locked house surrounded by an electrified fence ● The attack on a ventriloquist's dummy ● A haunted teepee ● The vanishing of a teenage girl from her blue bicycle ● And eight other ingenious problems for Dr. Sam Edward D. Hoch was the most ingenious of modern mystery writers. He was author of more than 900 short stories, winner of the Edgar Award, former President of the Mystery Writers of America, and contributor to every issue of Ellery Queen¿s Mystery Magazine since 1973 until his death in 2008. As John Dickson Carr remarked, ¿Satan himself would be proud of his ingenuity.¿ The introduction is by Janet Hutchings, editor of Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine.… (more)
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Dr. Sam Hawthorne, a New England country doctor in the first half of the twentieth century, was constantly faced by murders in locked rooms and impossible disappearances. Nothing Is Impossible contains fifteen of Dr. Sam¿s most extraordinary cases solved between 1932 and 1936, including ● A circus acrobat who vanishes from a trapeze ● An invisible weapon ● Murder in a cabin surrounded by unmarked snow ● Murder in a locked house surrounded by an electrified fence ● The attack on a ventriloquist's dummy ● A haunted teepee ● The vanishing of a teenage girl from her blue bicycle ● And eight other ingenious problems for Dr. Sam Edward D. Hoch was the most ingenious of modern mystery writers. He was author of more than 900 short stories, winner of the Edgar Award, former President of the Mystery Writers of America, and contributor to every issue of Ellery Queen¿s Mystery Magazine since 1973 until his death in 2008. As John Dickson Carr remarked, ¿Satan himself would be proud of his ingenuity.¿ The introduction is by Janet Hutchings, editor of Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine.

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